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<div>{{Infobox military person<br />
| honorific_prefix = [[Major]]<br />
| name = Laishram Jyotin Singh<br />
| honorific_suffix = [[Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)|AC]]<br />
| native_name = <br />
| image = Laishram Jyotin Singh.jpg<br />
| image_size = 250 px<br />
| caption = Portrait of Maj (Dr.) Laishram Jyotin Singh<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date |1972|05|14}}<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age |2010|02|26|1972|05|14}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Manipur]], [[India]]<br />
| death_place = [[Kabul]], [[Afghanistan]]<br />
| allegiance = {{flag|India}}<br />
| branch = {{army|India}}<br />
| servicenumber = MS-14522F<br>(short-service commission)<ref name="commission"/><br>MR-08609M<br>(regular commission)<br />
| unit = [[Army Medical Corps]]<br />
| Unit = <br />
| serviceyears = 2003-2010<br />
| rank = [[File:Major of the Indian Army.svg|24px]] [[Major]]<br />
| awards = [[File:Ashoka Chakra ribbon.svg|25px]] [[Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)|Ashok Chakra]]<br />
}}<br />
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[[Major]] '''Laishram Jyotin Singh''', [[Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)|AC]] was an [[Officer]] in the [[ Army Medical Corps]] of the [[Indian Army]], who died fighting a suicide bomber during the [[February 2010 Kabul attack|attack on the Indian Embassy]] in [[Kabul]].<ref>{{cite news|last=IANS|title=Republic Day: Kabul terror attack hero Major Laishram Jyotin Singh wins Ashok Chakra|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/republic-day-kabul-terror-attack-hero-major-laishram-jyotin-singh-wins-ashok-chakra/articleshow/7365915.cms|accessdate=26 January 2011|newspaper=Economic Times|date=26 January 2011}}</ref> Major Singh was awarded the [[Ashok Chakra Award|Ashoka Chakra]], the highest peacetime gallantry award in the [[Indian Armed Forces]] on [[Republic Day of India|26 January]], 2011.<ref>{{cite news|last=Special Correspondent|title=Major Jyotin Singh awarded Ashok Chakra posthumously|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article570881.ece|accessdate=26 January 2011|newspaper=The Hindu|date=26 January 2011}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
[[File:Pratibha Devisingh Patil conferred the Ashoka Chakra on Major Laishram Jyotin Singh (posthumous) at the beginning of the Republic Day Parade 2011, at Rajpath.jpg|right|thumb|Laishram Jyotin Singh's brother receives the Ashok Chakra from president Pratibha Patil on 26 January 2011.]]<br />
Singh was born in 1972 in [[Manipur]], [[India]], in a [[Hindu]] [[Meitei people|Meitei]] family. On 15 February 2003, he was commissioned a captain in the Army Medical Corps on a short-service commission.<ref name="commission">{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=2452 |date=10 December 2005|url=http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2005/W_50_2012_117.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> He was promoted major on 15 February 2007,<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=1376 |date=8 September 2007|url=http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2007/W_36_2010_028.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> and with effect from 26 April was appointed to a permanent commission with the rank of major dating from 15 February 2005.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) |page=858-859 |date=12 July 2008|url=http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2008/W_28_2011_069.pdf|publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref><br />
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Singh was posted with the Indian Embassy in Kabul in 2010. Just thirteen days after his posting, on 26 February 2010, a [[suicide bomber]] attacked the guarded residential compound where he was staying.<ref name=ndtv>{{cite news|last=IANS|title=Who is Major Laishram Jyotin Singh?|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/who-is-major-laishram-jyotin-singh-81624|accessdate=26 January 2011|newspaper=NDTV India|date=26 January 2011}}</ref> Major Singh confronted the terrorist unarmed and forced him to detonate his vest, which resulted in his death. He was awarded the Ashok Chakra "For his act of exemplary courage, grit, selflessness and valour in the face of a terrorist attack, resulting in his sacrifice and saving 10 of his colleagues"<ref name=pib>{{cite web|title=Ashoka Chakra to (Late) Major Laishram Jyotin Singh Two Kirti Chakras (Posthumous) also Awarded|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=64772|publisher=Press Information Bureau, Government of India|accessdate=26 January 2011}}</ref><br />
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